“Particle Fever,” the new, award-winning documentary that follows six scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider—the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet—will be...Read more

The award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics specifically honors the work of theorists Peter Higgs and François Englert, who helped predict the existence of the Higgs boson. But...Read more

The long-sought Higgs boson—the particle that endows all elementary particles in the universe with mass—was elusive no longer when scientists at the CERN physics laboratory in Switzerland, discovered it last...Read more

The University of Chicago will host a panel of experts from UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on Thursday, Feb. 7, who will discuss the discovery...Read more

Physicists on the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced today that they have observed a new particle. Whether the particle has the properties of the predicted...Read more

After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their strongest...Read more

The Large Hadron Collider ’s two experimental research collaborations at CERN , the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, will announce the latest results in their search for the Higgs...Read more

James Pilcher is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics in Geneva, Switzerland. ATLAS (A Toroidal Large Hadron Collider Apparatus) has been helping...Read more

Mark Oreglia has been heavily involved in planning for the International Linear Collider, a proposed subatomic particle collider designed to solve some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. He...Read more